Space Rift - Episode 1 Reviews

I have to say that the developer put a great effort into making this game an immersive and enthralling experience! I could complain about the length or the price, but regardless of being an episodic game, this one here, has quality. Professional voice acting, nice graphics and a really awesome soundtrack. Being a VR title, the challenge of a well thought out VR experience nailed my expectations. The cockpit interaction, the navigation through the ship deck and the combats feel just right. I would definitely recommend this and I'm curious for Episode 2!

As a proud owner of a Vive I've played a couple of VR games already, mostly room scale stuff. Most of them are AMAZING, and you get a feeling of being in the Star Trek holo deck... and some of them are even great examples of well-put-together games (great example: Vanishing Realms). But if you want story + game: Get Space Rift. In all the VR games that I've tried, I haven't found a single one where story, gameplay and presentation are blended together to this great big sauce of awesomeness. The atmosphere is dazzling. I find myself curving through Space, beeps and blips of my cockpit around me, movielike music playing in the background... I could try and describe the mix of feelings all day, it wouldn't do this game justice. The controls work pretty well, I've encountered some smaller problems, but nothing that could kill the mood really. JUST GET IT. If you're anything like me, and you like science fiction in space environments, you'll LOVE this game. I have to say I was pretty reluctant to get it at first after seeing all the negatives here, but even if I'm close to the ending, I still whole-heartedly recommend this game. Heck, I'll play through it multiple times just to relive the feeling and see the whole movie/story play out again.

i liked it but its far to short, honestly if u played it for an hr u would finish it.. and the ending sucks, the solus project was the same price and it was wayyyy longer...laser fire is like shining a flashlight no real feeling of shooting,its a bit cartoony as well...not worth 15 in my opinion, at best 5,would have recommended if it was a bit longer,well a lot longer, shorter than a midgets underwear, cant give it the thumbs up cause its to short and crap ending.

Just played a lil bit of this and had to leave. My impressions. This is a FUN, Quality title! I've no idea of its length or what it plans to unfold but I like how the cockpit is handled and its use of the ship. The text on the screen is CLEAR Unlike ELITE DANGEROUS and the view distance in space seem crisper. The flying feels just a notch below however at this point but a welcome trade off being that I actually LIKE flying now because I read my controls ! Great title I RECOMMEND. I'll update more when I can! WELL, I GOTTA JOIN THE THUMBS DOWN CLUB! heres why, THEY DONT DISCERN THAT THIS IS AN EPISODIC game. i thought id be getting a complete game, i bought it was excited to spend the weekend playing it to tell you guys about it, when i see all the negative reviews about the games LENGHT AND ABRUPT ending! with that, it has to be thumbs down because had i known, it may have changed my purchase plans.

This is clearly one of the better REAL VR Games out there right now. I dont understand the people complaining about the length. You get a high quality game with immersive atmosphere, great voice acting and design and most importantly a real story. This is not your typical VR Demo game that shows you the possibilities of VR. This is actually a real game and worth every penny. Yes it probably takes only 2-3 hours to complete, but these are 2-3 hours of high quality gaming. I'd prefer spending 20$ on a short game that I really enjoy rather than on a game that is filled with too much boring content. In the end these high quality short games are the ones that motivate me enough to really play until the end. Really looking forward to Episode 2!

This game starts well but does not continue well. It starts with an intriguing story, and it proceeds promisingly. However, it is fun just for the first hour, I didn't enjoy much the rest (of the story and the dialogs and the further missions..). The game seems unfinished or to have been finished less than planned, considering the good beginning story and upgrade features that you don't need to use much. The good side is you do not need to invest much time learning the controls for maneuvering the ship. There is no six-axis control; there is pitch, yaw, roll along with controlling the forward and backward speed. Frankly, I found this control scheme simple and fun compared to other spaceship games. The holographic panels around the seat are cool, too. However, you don't use your real hands to use them, instead, by pointing your gaze and pressing an appropriate button on your gamepad. It would be cool if touch controllers were supported, but as such it is nice as well. Combat is a bit problem. The enemy ships are turning around you, and like, trying to stay behind you during attacks. So, to chase them, you need to do lots of continuous turning as well as targeting with your gaze. That can make you dizzy if it takes long. The visuals are good, and I didn't experience any glitch or other sort of vr related flaws. I think there are better games, like Everspace, similar to this one. Yet, I am happy to have it in my library, too.

It's refreshing (after all the turn and shoot games) Though a bit of a "walk through". I find the shooting from the ship FUN and the flying fun, but a little to easy. Ship doesn't float, and you can't move one way and rotate and shoot behind you while traveling in the same bearing. Then to "DRILL" you click a button and the ship "AUTO MOVES" in to drill. I'd rather have a cross hair appear and have to maneuver the ship into place to drill. So it's lacking some of the game finesse I'd like to have seen included. One other things like other games - (why does it FLASH out to VR background?) I find that really irritating. SURELY they can make it fade to title screen or black... I keep thinking I've crashed out of the game. I've completed a couple missions - it was fun, but VERY easy... "what I mean by a walk through". I'd really love to see a bit more complexity. Still one of the most polished games so far. I'm tired of buying all the crap. I now have restraint... and will wait for the quality titles. GET IT - but don't expect a lot of excitement, challenge or acrade action. It is at least calling me back to play more... which is more than I can say for 90% of the VR titles so far. A real nice hint of THINGS TO COME.

Updated! - See below for my previous review. I am greatly dissapointed to have to change my status from thumbs up to thumbs down. I had high hopes for this game. However a game breaking glitch prevented us from continuing after the 5th mission or so. That was not what made me change my mind though, the fact is the devs responded and fixed it in a timely manner - which was great! However, upon continuing to play once the glitch was fixed, I would realise the shocking fact that that mission was in fact the FINAL mission of the game which abruptly ends on a cliff hanger with a "To be continued" message. I don't know if it was intentionally glitched to hide that fact or not. But what I do know is that this game that costs $20 only lasts less than 2 hours. Note that my time is just above 2 hours, but I spent a good portion of that replaying the last mission trying to get past the glitch before it was fixed. Everything I posted in my previous review is still true, but I was under the impression that I had only seen a small portion of the game. It turns out I had seen about 95% of it. I am extremely dissapointed ... but recommend that you wait until this goes on sale to pick it up for around $5, because what there is is pretty good. sigh... My Previous review. Solid gameplay backed up by a strong narrative component. THIS is exactly the kind of game VR needs. The voice acting is decent, the character models are passable.. but it actually puts YOU into the pilot seat AND in the briefing room. You get to follow the characters story while also flying around a space ship and blowing stuff up, mining asteroids and exploring deep space wreckage. This game is the first step into taking VR from "experience gameplay" to "story driven gameplay" and it works beautifully. Sure its still not a AAA experience, but what we need for VR is MORE of this and it definitely deserves your support. I highly recommend it.

This game has an awesome atmosphere. It feels like watching a movie at some points. The music is great. It also has a higher difficulty than most vr games. It's one of the few story-driven VR games there are and that alone is awesome. It does have some slight problems that probably will be fixed though. As I'm writing this I'm two hours into the game, but haven't reached an ending yet.

Sigh...okay, regrettably I have to join the "thumbs up" to "thumbs down" team too. On the plus side, the game is beautifully crafted, with an engaging storyline and some wonderful enironments that really take advantage of VR (though it still drops out to the plain "SteamVR" environment during loading, which is a bit of a shame). Alos, when there was a bug it was fixed same day, so excellent response time. On the other had, it is WOEFULLY short for the price. Regrettably this is more of an issue because it IS so good...and because it is so obviously unfinished. I wanted MORE dammit. I also feel cheated because I feel it should have been marketed more clearly as "Episode 1" or something, so you at least had a chance to know you weren't going to get an ending. I've defended other games (Inside) on the basis of their artistry and storytelling. But this combination of an EXTREMELY short game and the feeling that I was misled into buying it as a complete title, when it's actually just "Part 1" has left a bitter taste. Whether or not I buy part two will depend entirely on the price as a result. Original review was; Really was enjoying this until one of the missions seems to bug out...Gravidas Station...I find the escape capsule, but then it just says "awaiting objective"....anyone got a fix?